History & Historical Biography

John Davis Billings / Hardtack and Coffee - The Unwritten Story of Army Life (Large Paperback)

  Most histories of the US Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give a vivid, detailed picture of what ordinary soldiers endured every day—in camp, on...

Michael W. Kauffman / American Brutus - John Wilkes Booth (Large Paperback)

John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies It is a tale as familiar as our history A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded...

Dan van der Vat / Standard of Power : The Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century (Large Paperback)

Dan van der Vat, author of authoritative bestselling books on the Titanic and the history of the submarine, has now produced an enthralling and thoroughly researched history of the Royal Navy in the...

Olivier Philipponnat / The Life of Irene Nemirovsky (Large Paperback)

The first major biography of the author of Suite FrançaiseThe posthumous publication of Suite Française won Irène Némirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers to her work. But the...

Richard Ramsbotham / Who Wrote Bacon (Large Paperback)

Who Wrote Bacon?: William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and James I

Ruth Cowen / Relish - The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef(Hardback)

Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef

Richard Holmes / Coleridge : Early Visions (Hardback)

Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets. ‘Coleridge:...

Gertraud Junge / Last Witnesses in the Bunker (Hardback)

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Loung Ung / First They Killed My Father (Large Paperback)

Daughter of Cambodia #1

Bruce Nunn / History with a Twist (Large Paperback)

Wonderful & wacky tales of Nova Scotia history, told with Mr. Nova Scotia Know-It-All's humour & wit.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

David Thomson - Europe Since Napoleon Pelican PB Reprint 1982 ( Originally 1957)

 A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period, A comprehensive historical study of modern Europe from 1789, analyzing continent-wide forces including...

Laura Barcella / Fight Like a Girl - 50 Feminists Who Changed the World (Large Paperback)

  Feminism is a hot topic. The battle for gender equality is being fought by everybody from politicians to indie social media campaigners, celebrities to school girls. But how did we get here and who...

David V. Herlihy / The Lost Cyclist (Large Paperback)

The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an America

Peter Kurth / Anastasia (Large Paperback)

The Riddle Of Anna Anderson   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing exi

Anthony Birley - Lives of the Later Caesars - HB - 1992

Published in this edition by Guild Publishing, London, 1992, first published in this translation ( from the original Latin) in 1976.  Light edgewear to covers.  One of the most controversial of all...

Stephen Coote / A Play of Passion: The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh (Hardback)

Sir Walter Raleigh is well-know as an exp

Amanda Foreman / Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Hardback)

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one

John Boardman - The Greeks Overseas - Vintage Pelican PB - 1964

Paperback, published by Pelican paperbacks UK , 1964 A study of exploration and travel by the ancient Greeks ( primarily between  the 8th and 6th centuries BCE, and the wider dissemination of Greek...

Renia Spiegel / Renia's Diary - A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Large Paperback)

A Young Girl's Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust Introduction by Deborah Lipstadt, author of DenialJuly 15, 1942, WednesdayRemember this day; remember it

Robert M. Edsel / Saving Italy (Large Paperback)

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis

Alan Farmer / The Origins of the American Civil War (Large Paperback)

The text provides a detailed account of the causes of the American Civil War, identifying slavery as central to the dispute between Northern and Southern American states during the mid-nineteenth...

Robert Gellately - Backing Hitler : Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany - HB - 2001

Hardcover, published by Oxford University Press, 2001.  A solid copy , internally unmarked, but lacking the dustjacket, titles in gilt to spine.  With three sections of period b&w photographs ...

Feroz Ahmad / Turkey (Large Paperback)

The Quest for Identity This insightful history of Turkey tells the story of a country caught between the ideologies of East and West. This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

David Potter / The Victor's Crown (Large Paperback)

How the Birth of the Olympics and the Rise of the Roman Games Changed Sport For Ever The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a

Bob Clarke / From Grub Street to Fleet Street (Large Paperback)

From the broadsides of the sixteenth century to the broadsheets of the 19th century, taking in the Civil War newsbooks, the gutter press of the 18th century, the rise of the Sunday papers full of...

Blaine Baggett & Ernest Volkman / Secret Intelligence (Large Paperback)

  The Inside Story of America's Espionage Empire. A companion volume to the US PBS series of the same name is "a lucid review of the development of US espionage. Based on interviews with spies,...

Robert Guest / The Shackled Continent (Large Paperback)

The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future

Verlag Haus am Checkpoint Charlie - Es Geschah an der ,Mauer | It Happened at the Wall ( PB 1990) - Berlin Wall Illustrated History

Published 1990 ( as he Berlin Wall and the DDR was collapsing) this is a 5 language illustrated edition of a history of the Berlin Wall, with photographs ocf escapes, the Wall's construction, Berlin...

Alan Dawley / Class and Community - The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (Large Paperback)

  In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn,...

Juliet Gardiner / Who's Who in British History (Large Paperback)

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David S. Landes / The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Large Paperback)

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Ben Macintyre / The Siege (Large Paperback)

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

Phillips P. O'Brien / The Strategists (Large Paperback)

The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler: How War Made Them and How They Made

Stephen Pope / The Macmillan Dictionary of the Second World War (Large Paperback)

A comprehensive guide to World War II, th

Peter deRosa - Vicars of Christ : The Dark Side of the Papacy - HB - SIGNED

Signed boldly ( covering the entire blank endpage) - ''with the best wishes of teh author, Peter de Rosa'' in black marker to the page.  The dark side of the papacy.   Peter de Rosa’s international...

John Martin / A Raid Over Berlin (Large Paperback)

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Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - HB ABRIDGED EDITION - Edited by D.M Low - 1960

Hardcover, a large and heavy volume, published in this abridged ( i.e shortened and concise) edition by Chatto & Windus UK, 1960. Lacks the original dustjacket, but solid in lightly scuffed grey...

Stephen Randolf Gibbons & P Morican / The League of Nations and U.N.O. (Large Paperback)

The League of Nations and U.N.O.  

Geoffrey Regan / Elizabeth I (Large Paperback)

Elizabeth I - saviour of the Protestant religion, or cautious and conservative queen? Through an intriguing selection of primary sources - state papers, private correspondence, conspirators' letters,...

Bernard Connolly / The Rotten Heart of Europe (Large Paperback)

Alec Harman / The Sonata Principle (Large Paperback)

The Sonata Principle : Man and His Music, Vol. 3

Peter Ackroyd / The Life of Thomas More (Large Paperback)

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James Spada / Jackie: Her Life in Pictures (Coffee Table Book)

A legendary life shown in rare, mostly never before published photographsArguably the most famous woman of the century, certainly one of its most photographed, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis...

Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway - PB

Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is...

Michael Holman / Postmark Africa - Half A Century as Foreign Correspondent (Large Paperback)

Postmark Africa: Half a Century as a Foreign Correspondent

Roger Burbach & Ben Clarke / September 11 and the U.S. War (Large Paperback)

September 11 and the U.S. War: Beyond the Curtain of Smoke

Nick Yapp / The American Millennium (Large Paperback)

Using photos from the Hulton Getty Collection this book presents 1,000 years of incident and achievement. There are some records of pre-European settlement period - it uses artifacts, rock art,...

Michael Palin / Halfway to Hollywood (Hardback)

Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980--1988  

Margaret Forster / Rich Desserts & Captain's Thin (Hardback)

In 1831 John Dodgson Carr, son of a Quaker grocer, set off to walk from his home in Kendal to Carlisle, determined to launch a great enterprise. Within 15 years, Carr's of Carlisle had become one of...

Lytton Strachey - Eminent Victorians - Vintage HB - 1932

 Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General GordonLytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book...

Terry H. Anderson / The Sixties (Large Paperback)

In The Sixties, Terry Anderson tackles the question of why American experienced a full decade of tumult & change, whose reverberations & consequences are still being felt in America today. Always...

Charles Breunig - The Age of Revolution and Reaction 1789-1850 ( 2nd Edition) - PB 1977

Paperback, 2nd revised edition 1977, originally 1970, a standalone volume in teh wider Norton History of Modern Europe series